Neville Edwards' memories of advancing through Europe after D-Day

My father, Neville Edwards, was a Signaller (RAF) with 38 Group Combined Operations and he travelled across Europe connecting the army land lines to enable communication. He went over on D-Day+4 and then headed for Le Fresne Camilly where the first airstrip (G5) was built. He remembers that they had to wait for the next airstrip to be built in order to allow the Typhoons to land, before they could move forward. Then they aimed for Lille whilst the Americans went to Paris. In this manner, he moved through France, into Belgium, Holland then eventually Germany. The first place in Germany that he... Mehr ...